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Lovely Betsy

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Camino Finisterre (October 2018)

• Oct 10, 2018

• #1

Hello.
So, first Camino for me, taking it at a wonderfully gentle pace, and has been such an incredible experience at only day 2!
Except...
Really, really, really saddened at the littering. Toilet paper, sanitary towel wrappers, plastic of all kinds.
Why?
Do we need Pilgrim Paper Pouches like we have dog poo bags?!
You carried it with you that far, it’s really not going to hurt to carry it to the next rubbish bin is it and I’m sure other pilgrims, locals and the land itself would appreciate it.

 

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• Oct 10, 2018

• #2

Lovely Betsy said:

Really, really, really saddened at the littering.

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Half the pilgrims are Spanish. Five of the other eight "foreign" countries are not English-speaking, including the top two. You need to carry this campaign to forums in those languages! Everyone here agrees with you.

 

Lovely Betsy

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Camino Finisterre (October 2018)

• Oct 10, 2018

• #3

falcon269 said:

Half the pilgrims are Spanish. Five of the other eight "foreign" countries are not English-speaking, including the top two. You need to carry this campaign to forums in those languages! Everyone here agrees with you.

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Thank you for the support.
Happy to find forums and post in relevant languages on my return home. I noticed a bowl of windfall fruit today free for pilgrims with a request to stop littering. I understand Camino Francés is even worse?

 

Anniesantiago

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• Oct 10, 2018

• #4

Lots of threads on this.
It's one of my biggest pet peeves!

 

nycwalking

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CF: 2001, 02, 04, 14. Ourense to Santiago 2019.

• Oct 10, 2018

• #5

Uh huh!

 

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Tim Floyd

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Frances 2017, 2023
TDMB 2016
Cotswold Way 2018

• Oct 11, 2018

• #6

Yep. We carried a plastic sack with us every day and picked up. Litter was probably my biggest disappointment. Seems so obvious that one can carry out that which was carried in.

 

VNwalking

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Via Monastica 2022

• Oct 11, 2018

• #7

It is an endless discussion here.
Some people are totally oblivious...and it bugs the heck out of the rest of us.
(@nycwalking...that sign...bwahahahahaha!!
Can someone please translate it and post it on the camino? Only partly kidding.)

And if you are free later this year, there IS something you can do, in addition to what @Tim Floyd and many of us do already: contact Reb and join or support the Ditch Pigs.
https://www.peaceableprojects.org/current-projects/

 

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vickipsmith

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2018

• Oct 11, 2018

• #8

Lovely Betsy said:

Hello.
So, first Camino for me, taking it at a wonderfully gentle pace, and has been such an incredible experience at only day 2!
Except...
Really, really, really saddened at the littering. Toilet paper, sanitary towel wrappers, plastic of all kinds.
Why?
Do we need Pilgrim Paper Pouches like we have dog poo bags?!
You carried it with you that far, it’s really not going to hurt to carry it to the next rubbish bin is it and I’m sure other pilgrims, locals and the land itself would appreciate it.

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Totally agreed

 

Bala

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Frances 2015, 2018, 2022

• Oct 13, 2018

• #9

About 10 km past Melide, taken this morning.

 

Canche

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Norte/Frances 2016, San Salvador & Primitivo 2021

• Oct 14, 2018

• #10

That's one of the main reasons I don't like the Frances. None of that on the Norte which is also more beautiful and less crowded

 

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Mike18

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North (2018)

• Oct 16, 2018

• #11

My absolute pet peeve on my camino this Sumner. But i have a feeling that the people who litter are not on this forum!

 

Jim irish

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2014 sarria to muxia ,
2017 french way

• Oct 16, 2018

• #12

I passed that sign earlier today ... it's a good one .... I also passed overflowing bins at various spots which I suppose are emptied but the local councils or whatever they are called in Spain ....
I have seen some litter along the way but also notice that the 300 thousand mark was passed this week and it's obiously way more than that the amount of actual people that have been on the camino .... I think a tread about non litter spots is needed .... lol ... if a farmer drove 30 cattle down a bit of the camino there would be cow shite everywhere and they would make a mess but we'll over 300 thousand people have trod the camino this year to date and there still going .... in all fairness it's not looking too bad all things considered!